"Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home"

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Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

Ruth Pitter

#Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes #Home Quotes

“Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.”
“What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.”
“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”

Source : JOHN POWELL (1967). “WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?”
“Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal”
“My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.”

Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”
“If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.”
“I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.”

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